Biography

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, 2023
• M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, 2020
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2017

Work experience

• [10/2024 - present] Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University, USA
• [08/2023 - 09/2024] Postdoc Researcher Associate at University of Virginia, USA
• [01/2023 - 06/2023] Research Intern at Argonne National Lab, USA
• [05/2022 - 08/2022] Research Intern at Argonne National Lab, USA
• [06/2020 - 08/2020] Software Engineer Intern at T-Mobile, USA

Invited Talks & Presentations

Invited Talks

• [07/2024] “Large Language Models and Foundation Models in Agriculture: Bridging Theory and Practice”, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), ASABE, 2024
• [05/2024] “Large Language Models and Foundation Models in Smart Agriculture” at Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea (Virtual)
• [09/2023] “Communication-Efficient Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control” at IEEE ITSC, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain (Virtual)

Presentations

• [05/2024] “Impact of Different Infrastructures on the Behavioral and Physiological Responses of E-scooter Users” at Postdoctoral Research Symposium, University of Virginia, USA
• [07/2023] “Deep Data Augmentation for Weed Recognition Enhancement: A Diffusion Probabilistic Model and Transfer Learning Based Approach” at ASABE Annual International Meeting, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
• [02/2023] “Synthetic Data Augmentation by Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Enhancing Weed Recognition”, AI in Agriculture, ORLANDO, FL, USA
• [07/2020] “Autonomous driving using safe reinforcement learning by incorporating a regret-based human lane-changing decision model” at American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, USA (Virtual)

Posters

• [05/2024] “Back-stepping Experience Replay with Application to Model-free Reinforcement Learning for a Soft Snake Robot” at Northeast Systems and Control Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Services

Editors

• Guest Editor for Robotic Systems for Future Farming, Sensors

• Session Chair for “Intelligent Transportation Systems and AI-Based Methods” at IEEE ICRA 2025

• Guest Editor for AI-Driven Plant Intelligence, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

• Guest Editor for Advancing Agricultural Robotics, Sustainability
• Session Chair for the 2024 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)
• Guest Editor for Agricultural Cybernetics, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
• Guest Editor for Special Issue: Applications of Artificial Intelligence(AI) in Agriculture, Electronics
• Guest Editor for Special Issue: Robotics: From Technologies to Applications, Electronics

Journal & Conference Reviewer

• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
• IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
• Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control
• IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
• IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation
• Applied Energy
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
• IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
• Journal of Field Robotics
• Heliyon, Cell Press
• Scientific Reports
• Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
• Journal of the ASABE
• Frontiers in Plant Science
• Precision Agriculture
• Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
• Applied Engineering in Agriculture
• International Journal of Intelligent Systems
• International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications
• Evolving Systems
• Autonomous Intelligent Systems
• Electronics (MPDI)
• IEEE American Control Conference (ACC)
• IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)
• ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC)
• IEEE Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC)
• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Professional Memberships

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member
• IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, member
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, member
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Committee on Computer & Robot Vision
• Computer Vision Foundation, member
• American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), member
• SPIE, The International Society for Optics and Photonics, member
• American Society for Horticultural Science, member

Honors & Awards

• Presentation Excellence Award, ASABE, 2023
• ASABE ITSC Paper Award, 2023
• Student Travel Award, ACC 2020
• Recruiting Fellowship, MSU, 2018
• National Endeavor Fellowship, UESTC, 2015
• First Prize, 4th National Undergraduate Engineering Training Integration Ability Competition, China, 2015
• Second Prize, 12th National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest, China, 2015